Cruz Villanueva

Based on the author’s experience with immigration and living on the road, Echoes and Empty Spaces explores human identity through a series of letters written to unnamed recipients people who might be strangers or perhaps echoes of his past the boy tries to capture the essence of his fractured existencetaking the reader on a journey through different corners of the world in the search for connection, love and understanding. It is, in its purest form, a story about growing up alienated from the place you should call home, a story about reconnection, loss and identity. Each letter is a piece of a puzzle, reflecting a journey through foreign languages that reshape the narrators voice, cultures that alter his gestures, and the quiet, haunting transformation that comes with dying a little dead, ergo, leaving an old life to create a new one.